A user station for a serial bus system and a method for error signaling for a message received in a serial bus system are provided. The user station includes a communication control unit for creating a message to be transmitted serially to at least one further user station of the bus system, or for reading a message, received serially from at least one further user station, and a transceiver device for transmitting the created message on a bus line or for receiving a message from the bus line, the communication control unit and/or the transceiver device provide an ACK time window for an ACK signal and/or a NACK time window for a NACK signal in the message to be transmitted for a signaling of whether or not at least one further user station has identified an error in the transmitted message.
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2. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the communication control unit and/or the transceiver device is configured to space the ACK time window for the ACK signal and the NACK time window for the NACK signal apart by a predefined duration in which the bus line is exhibiting the recessive bus level.
3. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the ACK time window is situated temporally before or temporally after the NACK time window in the message.
4. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the ACK time window and the NACK time window have the same or a different duration.
6. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the ACK signal and/or the NACK signal includes a symbol which identifies a particular one of the user stations that has transmitted the ACK signal and/or the NACK signal.
7. The user station as recited in claim 6, wherein the user station is configured to transmit the NACK signal on the bus line only when the user station has an exclusive, collision-free access to the bus line of the bus system in the NACK time window.
8. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the transmitted message is a CAN message or a CAN FD message.
9. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the communication control unit is configured to evaluate the ACK time window for the ACK signal and/or the NACK time window for the NACK signal for a message transmitted by the user station and received from a bus line, and the transceiver device is configured to retransmit the previously transmitted message when the ACK signal and/or the NACK signal signals that an error has been identified.
10. The user station as recited in claim 1, wherein the communication control unit is designed to evaluate the message received from the second a further user station of the bus system for errors, and the transceiver device is configured to drive an ACK signal in an ACK time window of the received message when the communication control unit has identified no error in the received message or to drive a NACK signal in a NACK time window of the received message when the communication control unit has identified an error in the received message.
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December 18, 2018
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